Lung Cancer Screening: Wait for Prospective Study Findings!

UGO PASTORINO , Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan Even the most sophisticated and powerful detection method for lung cancer detection, spiral CT, is still unproven in the context of mass screening for lung cancer. At the conference in Turin, Ugo Pastorino, urged delegates to wait for the findings of the large randomized studies of spiral CT now being conducted before deciding whether to use this technique. He discussed his group’s findings with Peter Goodwin.